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EHD Columbia Cty. 2022

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Hate seeing this.  

Buddy of mine lives in Stockport, just north of Hudson. Last yr his area was hit hard with EHD.  He's only 20 miles south of me, and my area, thankfully, was spared. 

Talked to him a few days ago and he said the deer numbers are definitely low, and he hasn't seen any evidence of EHD in his area this yr. Hopefully it stays that way. 

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12 minutes ago, Four Seasons said:

No. Midge has no preference who it bites. 

I think you’re probably right that midges have no preferences. But there may be metabolic differences between bucks and does (especially this time of year during rapid antler growth) that makes bucks more susceptible to dying of EHD. Most of the “dead near water” pictures that I’ve seen are of bucks. Perhaps it’s just that dead antlered deer are more striking and so those pictures are shared more often… 

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5 hours ago, Versatile_Hunter said:

I think you’re probably right that midges have no preferences. But there may be metabolic differences between bucks and does (especially this time of year during rapid antler growth) that makes bucks more susceptible to dying of EHD. Most of the “dead near water” pictures that I’ve seen are of bucks. Perhaps it’s just that dead antlered deer are more striking and so those pictures are shared more often… 

Any deer that happens to be in the vicinity of the midge will get bite. Blood flow to the antler really won’t matter but it’s possible that with the buck havin antlers meaning more area for a bite it’s possible I guess. 

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